Employee Wellbeing Specialist

The Employee Wellbeing Specialist will champion staff wellbeing across DrPA Secure, embedding resilience, engagement, and health initiatives at every level. This strategic and operational role combines policy development, program delivery, and one-to-one support, ensuring that all staff feel valued, supported, and able to perform safely in a high-pressure, secure environment.

The post-holder will work closely with HR, operational managers and senior leadership to drive a positive organisational culture and improve workforce performance through wellbeing initiatives.

About Us

DrPA has been operating in secure environments since 2014 providing General Practitioner services. We are now expanding to provide a complete healthcare service at Manston STHF & Western Jet Foil, delivered directly or via specialist partners. Our ethos is CARE: Compassionate, Assurance, Respect, and Empowerment, delivering trauma informed, evidence based care that respects cultural and religious beliefs and empowers residents to self manage wellbeing.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a comprehensive wellbeing strategy aligned with organisational goals.
• Identify risks to staff wellbeing (stress, fatigue, trauma) and recommend preventative interventions.
• Advise senior leaders on wellbeing trends, staff morale and engagement metrics.
• Keep abreast of national best practices, regulations and emerging trends in workplace wellbeing.
• Design and deliver proactive and reactive wellbeing initiatives (mental health workshops, resilience training, stress management, mindfulness, physical health programs, team building activities).
• Develop crisis response plans for critical incidents and provide staff support after sickness, trauma or operational incidents.
• Maintain and update wellbeing policies, procedures and guidance to ensure compliance with employment law and health & safety regulations.
• Develop and report KPIs and wellbeing metrics (staff satisfaction, absenteeism, incident reports, engagement levels) to senior management.
• Champion a positive, trauma informed organisational culture and embed wellbeing principles into leadership practices.
• Promote equality, diversity and inclusion in all wellbeing activities and communications.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in employee wellbeing, occupational health, HR or organisational development.
• Strong knowledge of mental health, resilience, stress management and workplace wellbeing programmes.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and listening skills; high level of discretion and confidentiality.
• Experience designing, implementing and evaluating wellbeing initiatives.
• Ability to analyse workforce wellbeing data and present actionable insights.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Commitment to DrPA Secure's CARE ethos.
• Experience in secure, operational or public sector environments.
• Knowledge of HR policies, employment law and health & safety regulations.
• Familiarity with occupational health, counselling or EAP services.
• Experience influencing organisational culture and leadership practices.
• Ability to develop wellbeing training and workshop materials.

Benefits

• Pension salary scheme available.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP): confidential 24/7 support.
• Access to perks at work.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require submission of a Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service, as well as successful completion of the Counter Terrorism Clearance (CTC) process. Applicants must have lived in the UK for the last five years with no gaps in employment.

Please send CVs to . Shortlisted candidates will be asked for RTW, DBS/CTC consent and references.